He was as great as a man can be without morality.
Quote by Alexis De Tocqueville
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He was as great as a man can be without morality.
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Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes
- As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?
- The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other.
- What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.
- Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.
- The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.
- Life is to be entered upon with courage.
- Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
- A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.
- Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.
- All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.
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